By: Hunter Doiron
I will be the first to admit that I struggle sleeping when I should. Research from Rusnac et al. (2019) looked at the voluntary and involuntary origins of sleep loss for adolescents as it relates to risky behavior. They clarify the risky behaviors they are interested in are drinking and reckless driving because of their prevalence and severity (Rusnac et al., 2019). Surveying 536 late adolescent university students ages 19-25, they found those with voluntary sleep loss reported a higher quantity of drinking and riskier driving (Rusnac et al., 2019). They see personality and the sleep loss itself contributing to this higher risk taking, so there is a way for you and me to steer away from risky behavior; just get more sleep!
Rusnac, N.,
Spitzenstetter, F., & Tassi, P. (2019). Chronic sleep loss and risk-taking
behavior:
Does the origin of sleep loss matter? Behavioral
Sleep Medicine, 17(6), 729–739. https://doi-org.ezproxy.franu.edu/10.1080/15402002.2018.1483368
